
Starting May 5th at 7:30 pm (est) on APTN.
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Episodes

EPISODE 1: Biking
Downhill Mountain Biking is bringing Aboriginal people back to their ancestral British Columbia territory in new ways. This episode features Brianna Kelly, a 16-year-old who can shred like the pros, on her journey to the Silver Star Downhill B.C. Cup with her coach and mentor, Jay Bearhead.
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DIRECTOR: Michelle Smith
EDITOR: Meiyen Chan
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EPISODE 2. Lacrosse
The ancient game of Lacrosse has gained popularity through the years with more teams and regions joining the sport. Kallen Currie of Mistawasis First Nation in Saskatchewan is an aspiring lacrosse athlete who is given a chance to compete at the World Junior Lacrosse Championship.
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DIRECTOR: Paul Rickard
EDITOR: David Stonier
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EPIDSODE 3. Football
Football is one of Canada’s mainstream sports. Despite the vast distances between communities, the sport has found its way into many First Nations schools in northern Saskatchewan. We follow Dray Tinker and the Pinehouse Lake school football team as they compete with other schools in Six-A-Side football.
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DIRECTOR: Paul Rickard
EDITOR: Jesse Bochner
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EPISODE 4. Boxing
This episode features the accomplishments of two dynamic women making their mark in the traditionally male world of boxing. Winnipeg resident Kenzie Wilson, of the Cross Lake First Nation in Northern Manitoba, talks about the hard work and perseverance that got her through hard times.
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DIRECTOR: Courtney Montour
EDITOR: Jesse Bochner
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EPISODE 5. Volleyball
Volleyball is a sport well recognized by First Nations communities. This episode follows the Walkingbear family of Thunderchild First Nation in Saskatchewan, who started their own community-based volleyball club, which has produced highly trained players and elite volleyball athletes.
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DIRECTOR: Paul Rickard
EDITOR: Jesse Bochner
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EPISODE 6. Salish Canoeing
Canoeing has been a part of the West Coast First Nations cultures throughout the centuries. Today, canoe families train and spend their summers travelling up and down the coast of B.C. competing in races.
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DIRECTOR: Courtney Montour
EDITOR: James Malloch
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EPISODE 7. Basketball
Basketball in Canada is an affordable sport and a good way for Indigenous youth to have fun together and trace themselves a better path in life. Near Kenora, Ontario, Tania Cameron runs a basketball program that has been successful in increasing youth involvement and driving the sport’s popularity.
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DIRECTOR: Paul Rickard
EDITOR: James Malloch
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EPISODE 8. Soccer
Cowichan Tribes is the largest First Nations community in British Columbia and its soccer athletes have travelled the world playing this sport. This episode follows veteran player, Dano Thorne, as he coaches young athletes and talks about NIFA, the Native Indian Soccer Association, which provides training and opportunities for indigenous players.
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DIRECTOR: Courtney Montour
EDITOR: James Malloch
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EPISODE 9. Kayaking
This episode dives into the competitive sport of Sprint Kayaking. James Lavallée, a Metis from Winnipeg, is a kayaker who has been competing for years and is now ready to qualify in the Olympics for Team Canada. Sharon Rice from Kahnawake is a mentor to many in her work at the Onake Paddling Club. She speaks about her connection with the sport and with Mother Nature.
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DIRECTOR: Jeff Dorn
EDITOR: Meiyen Chan
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EPISODE 10. Wrestling
Twin brothers Thomas and Philip Barreiro of Akwesasne are Greco-Roman style wrestlers who are on their way to qualify for the 2020 Olympics. Tara Hedican, the first indigenous woman to win a World Junior Wrestling Championship,
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DIRECTOR: Margaret Horn
EDITOR: Jesse Bochner
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EPISODE 11. Long Distance Running
The running event called the Mamu Marathon is held every year in the small community of Uashat and the town of Sept-Iles, Quebec. We follow Byron ‘Geronimo’ Michel as he reflects on his life, trains, and sprints to the finish line.
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DIRECTOR: Felix Atencio Gonzáles
EDITOR: Meiyen Chan
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EPISODE 12. Arctic Sports
The Arctic Winter Games is an international celebration of circumpolar sports and indigenous culture, showcasing traditional Arctic and modern athletics. We join young athletes, Emily King, Matthew Jacobson, and Kuduat Shorty of Team Yukon,
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DIRECTOR: Jeff Dorn
EDITOR: James Malloch
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EPISODE 13. Speedskating
In the Nunavut town of Iqaluit, a small group of determined athletes push themselves to the limit in speedskating. This episode profiles the young skaters Rosalie Demaio, Emma Carpenter, and Akutaq Williamson Bathory, of Team Nunavut, led by former competitive skater Kyle St. Laurent, as they train, prepare themselves for, and compete in the Arctic Winter Games.
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DIRECTOR: Asinnajaq
EDITOR: Meiyen Chan
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Production Team
Mushkeg Productions Inc. is an Indigenous production company specializing in films and videos about the Indigenous experience, films that deal with contemporary issues facing Canada’s First Nations, their environment, activities, traditions and their struggle for economic and political autonomy. The company is headed by Paul M. Rickard, independent Cree filmmaker and cameraman. Paul’s partner is veteran producer and director George Hargrave. Mohawk Ironworkers is their fourth series for APTN.

Paul Richard
Director/Producer
Paul Rickard is an Omuskego Cree from Moose Factory in Northern Ontario. For the past 25 years, he has been working as a producer, director and cameraman in collaboration with independent production companies and organizations such as Nutaaq Media Inc.,
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Courtney Montour
Writer/Director
Courtney Montour is Mohawk from Kahnawake. She works in the documentary film and digital media fields exploring issues of Indigenous identity. Her first feature documentary “Sex Spirit Strength’ (2015), premiered on APTN and won two awards at the 2016 Yorkton Film Festival, including Best of Fest.
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George Hargrave
Producer
George has been an independent producer and director for over 25 years. He went to the North Pole in 1987 and has been an admirer of all things northern ever since. He and his production partner Paul Rickard launched Mushkeg Media to tell stories about the north and the people who live there.
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Michelle Smith
Writer/Director
Michelle Smith is a Métis filmmaker, media artist and educator. She uses diverse media to explore issues around indigenous identity, cultural continuity and decolonizing practices. Her documentary work includes “Working it Out Together 3” (2016) and the Aboriginal language series “Finding our Talk” (2010); feature docs “determiNATION songs” (2009) and “Turbulent Waters” (2004), experimental film “Buried Traces” (2010), and “It was a Woman” (2013).
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Margaret Horn
Writer/Director
Margaret Horn is Mohawk from Kahnawake, Bear Clan. She was executive producer for documentaries, “Our Nation’s Elders Speak” and “Diabetes & Aging”, “Keepers of the Earth: Women and HIV/AIDS”, exercise video “Spirit in Motion” (shown on APTN) and “Coming Full Circle”, teaching health workers gentle exercises for the elderly.
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Jeff Dorn
Writer/Director
Jeff Dorn has been making Documentaries for over 25 years. The images and stories he has collected have won numerous accolades and awards. Jeff’s core value is to the truth of a story and how sharing social political narrative of a subject’s reality can spark discussion with the hope of enforcing a positive change.
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Eric LeMoyne
Composer/Mixer
Eric was thrilled to handle both the music composing and sound mixing duties for this series, reprising his roles for Mushkeg’s series “Finding Our Talk”. Recent projects in music include CBC’s documentary feature “Newfoundland at Armageddon”; DocZone’s “Deluged by Data”; NatGeo’s hit series “Scam City” as well as the most recent installment of Danish movie series “My Sister’s Kids”.
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Asinnajaq
Writer/Director
Asinnajaq, also known as Isabella Weetaluktuk, is a filmmaker and artist whose work is fuelled by respect for human rights, a desire to explore her Inuit heritage, and a sense of wonder in what she calls “the abundant beauty of the world”.
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Felix Atencio-Gonzales
Writer/Director
Felix Atencio-Gonzales, a Quechwa native from Peru, immigrated to Canada over 20 years ago. He lives in Listuguj, Quebec where he works as a journalist, translator and community organizer. Felix has directed episodes for the television series, “Eastern Tide”, about Canada’s Aboriginal people, with an emphasis on the Mi’gmaq, as well as several episodes of the Mushkeg produced series, “Finding Our Talk”.
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EPISODE 1
MOUNTAIN BIKING (Director: Michelle Smith)
Tuesday, May 5, 7:30 pm est., repeats on Sat, May 9, Sun 10, and various times throughout the week
EPISODE 2
LACROSSE (Director: Paul Rickard)
Tuesday, May 12, 7:30 pm est., repeats on Sat, May 16, Sun 17, and various times throughout the week
EPISODE 3
FOOTBALL (Director: Paul Rickard)
Tuesday, May 19, 7:30 pm est., repeats on Sat, May 23, Sun 24, and various times throughout the week
EPISODE 4
BOXING (Director: Courtney Montour)
Tuesday, May 26, 7:30 pm est., repeats on Sat, May 30, Sun 31, and various times throughout the week
EPISODE 5
VOLLEYBALL (Director: Paul Rickard)
Tuesday, June 2, 7:30 pm est., repeats on Sat, June 6,, Sun, June 7, and various times throughout the week
EPISODE 6
TRADITIONAL SALISH CANOEING (Director: Courtney Montour)
Tuesday, June 9, 7:30 pm est., repeats on Sat, June 13, Sun, June 14, and various times throughout the week
EPISODE 7
BASKETBALL (Director: Paul Rickard)
Tuesday, June 16, 7:30 pm est., repeats on Sat, June 20, Sun, June 21, and various times throughout the week
EPISODE 8
SOCCER (Director: Courtney Montour)
Tuesday, June 23, 7:30 pm est., repeats on Sat, June 27, Sun, June 28, and various times throughout the week
EPISODE 9
SPRINT KAYAK (Director: Jeff Dorn)
Tuesday, June 30, 7:30 pm est., repeats on Sat, July 4, Sun, July 5, and various times throughout the week
EPISODE 10
WRESTLING (Director: Margaret Horn)
Tuesday, July 7, 7:30 pm est., repeats on Sat, July 11, Sun, July 12, and various times throughout the week
EPISODE 11
LONG DISTANCE RUNNING (Director: Felix Atencio Gonzales)
Tuesday, July 14, 7:30 pm est., repeats on Sat, July 18, Sun, July 19, and various times throughout the week
EPISODE 12
ARCTIC WINTER SPORTS (Director: Jeff Dorn)
Tuesday, July 21, 7:30 pm est., repeats on Sat, July 25, Sun, July 26, and various times throughout the week
EPISODE 13
SPEED SKATING (Director: Asinnajaq, a.k.a. Isabella Weetaluktuk)
Tuesday, July 28, 7:30 pm est., repeats on Sat, Aug 1, Sun, Aug 2, and various times throughout the week
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